Life-boat.



J. BIHON.

LIFE BOAT.

-APPLIOATION FILED MAY 13. 1914.

Patented Nov. 3, 1914.

Jamsf B17102?) THE NORRIS PETER; CO.. PHDTD-LITHO WASHINGYUN. D. C.

aozsnr BIHON, or corn. CENTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

LIFE-BOAT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 3,1914;

Application filed May 13, 1914. Serial No. 838,287.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Jozsnr BIIION, a subjectof the King of Hungary, residing at Coal Center, in the county oflVashington and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Life-Boats, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in lifeboats. l

The primary object of this invention is the provision of a life boatwith hinged outrigger floats adaptable when folded for supporting theboat in an upright position upon the deck.

A further object is to provide an outer ledge or hinged gunwaleextending entirely around a life boat and provided with hand holdportions and also being downwardly foldable in a supporting position forthe boat.

A still further object is to provide opposite outriggers hinged to alife boat and completely encircling the same when horizontallypositioned and adapted for hinged movements during the rocking of theboat in the water and utilized as supporting brackets when the life boatis positioned upon the deck of a ship.

lVith these general objects in view and others that will appear as thenature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in thenovel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described,

illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in theappended claims.

In the drawings forming a part of this application and wherein likenumerals of reference designate corresponding parts throughout theseveral views:-Figure 1 is a top plan view of a boat provided with thepresent invention, the folded positions of the outriggers beingillustrated in clotted lines. Big. 2 is a vertical transverse sectionalview thereof, and, Fig. 3 is a perspective detail view of an end portionof one of the outriggers detached.

Referring more in detail to the drawings, the life boat 10 isillustrated as provided with oppositely-positioned outrigger floats orboards 11 swingingly connected to the exterior of the boat by means ofhinges 12 located at the point of the normal water level of the boat.lVhen the boat is positioned in the water, the outriggers 11 are adaptedto float upon the top of the water and to be normally positioned in asingle plane with the adjacent ends 13 of the separate outriggersabutting each other as illustrated in Fig. 1, and at which times thetriangular blocks 14: positioned upon the tops of the outriggers and theexterior of the boat act as braces or stops for the outriggers andprevent any excessive upward movement of the outriggers upon theirhinges. Hand-hold bars 15 are positioned lmigitudinally upon theoutriggers and on the upper outer edges thereof between the brackets 14.r i

It will be seen that with the life boat in use, the outriggers willassist in supporting the boat in the water by reason of their buoyancyand will slightly move upon the hinges 12 during the rolling of the boatand thus tend to maintain the equilibrium thereof.

It is obvious that the boat may be pro pelled in any desired manner, forinstance, by means of oars (not shown) but adapted to engage the oarlocks 16 positionable in sockets 17 upon the opposite gunwales of theboat.

WVhen the life boat is stored away or positioned inoperative upon thedeck of the ship, the outriggers 11 are positioned as shown in dottedlines in Figs. 1 and 2 and thus support the boat by engagement of theedges of the outriggers with the deck. This position of the outriggersis at once assumed thereby when the life boat is elevated, as theoutriggers will then freely swing downwardly upon their hinges 12 tosuch posi tions, and are slightly inclined inwardly beneath the boat.The width of the outriggers or boards 11 is substantially equal to orslightly greater than the normal draft of the boat or in other words,the vertical distance between the hinging points of the outriggers andthe plane of the bottom of the keel when the boat is horizontallypositioned, is substantially the same or slightly less than the width ofthe outriggers, and thus insuring a support for the boat when saidoutriggers are turned downwardly. The hoisting of the life boat over theside of the ship into the water allows the outriggers to assume theirfloating positions as soon as the boat is positioned in the water.

lVhile theforms of the invention herein shown and described are what arebelieved to be preferable embodiments thereof, it is nevertheless to beunderstood that various forms and modifications may be resorted to whichfall within the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed.

/Vhat I claim as new is:

1. In combination with a life boat, two oppositely-positioned floatboards hinged in a single plane to the exterior thereof and completelyencircling the same when the boat ispositioned in the water,triangularshaped spaced brackets upon the upper faces of said boardsadapted for limiting engagement with the boat sides,longitudina1ly-positioned hand rails upon the upper edges of said boardsbetween said brackets, the width of said boards being substantiallyequal to the draft depth of the boat.

2. In combination, a life boat, bow-shaped Outriggers hinged to theopposite sides of the boat at the normal Water line thereof and in 'asingle plane parallel to the plane of the gunwales of the boat, thewidth of said Outriggers being substantially equal to the distancebetween the plane of the outrigger hinges and the plane of the bottom ofthe boat keel parallel to said plane of the hinges, limiting triangularstop brackets JOZSEF BIHON.

Witnesses Jon TIMKO, L. L. BANE.

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